BIO:
Natalka Proszak is a Ukrainian-Canadian, interdisciplinary artist and writer currently based in New Orleans, LA. She holds a BFA (sculpture/creative writing) from Concordia University, and an MFA Fiction from the University of New Orleans’ CWW.
Natalka has brought her work in set design and art direction to original and collaborative creations for music videos and public installations, visual accompaniment for performance, contemporary dance, and film/ television. Working primarily with found objects and materials, her sculptural and installation work explores the boundaries of memory through collective unconscious and Ukrainian/Romani Diaspora. She has been a fiction reader for Bayou Magazine, yolk Literary journal, and a member of the non-profit, artist-run centre The Long Haul. Her work has been published by Goldfish Press and LMNL Lit. Natalka was the 2022 recipient of the Samuel Mockbee Award for Non-Fiction and a semi-finalist for American Short Fiction’s Halifax Ranch Contest, 2023.
Current CV available upon request.